Low-cost gait analysis for behavioral phenotyping of mouse models of neuromuscular disease

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn 2019, Issue 149, 2019, Pages

  Wertman, Virginia ^a   Gromova, Anastasia ^a,b   La Spada, Albert R ^a   Cortes, Constanza J ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior; Footprint analysis; Gait analysis; Issue 149; Mouse models; Neurodegenerative disease; Neuromuscular disease; Phenotyping; Stride length

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; COST; DISEASE MODEL; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMAN; MALE; MOUSE; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PROCEDURES; WALKING;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GAIT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASES; PHENOTYPE; WALKING;

EID: 85070472141     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/59878     Document Type: Article

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